squid hello write test failed

2008-04-23 Thread Tobias Ernst
Dear All This is a amd64 box with FreeBSD 6.3. So far it is only acting as a firewall (with PF). Yesterday I installed squid via ports with a pretty vanilla configuration. I.e. no neighbour caches, just to be used as a standalone cache for users from the inside net. No interception caching (y

strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Dear all, I've got two xSeries 346 servers here with a total of 6 Broadcom gigabit NIC's each. I'm going to build a firewall with them, but right now I'm in an early testing stage. The OS is FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for amd64. Each of the machines is currently configured to have an IP from our interna

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Hi, I have further news on this problem. It really seems to be a driver/hardware issue. As I said, the two servers have 6 NICs each. These are: bge0, bge1: BCM5750, integrated on the motherboard bge2, bge3: BCM5704, PCIX card bge4, bge5: BCM5704, PCIX card I have now greatly simplified the test

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-08-31 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: > On Friday 31 August 2007 22:30, I correctly wrote: >> Did you try without forcing a link speed(check ifconfig -m) > s/without // > > anything useful in dmesg? No, nothing at all in dmesg. I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows machine that

Re: strange arp problem with bge nics

2007-09-01 Thread Tobias Ernst
Nikos Vassiliadis schrieb: >> I don't think this is an auto negotiation issue. How can a Windows >> machine that is connected to the same switch as my two FreeBSD machines >> and does not even talk to them explicitly influence the autonegotation >> of the FreeBSD NIC? > I didn't say that a Windo

Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Tobias Ernst
Modulok schrieb: > Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror > issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: > > 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to > successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged) disk? It's the > latter par